The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 60
'I know,' answered the middle dove; 'she shall never be able to say anything but "dirty creatures" to the end of her life.'
Who acts: I, stepmother · What happens: know, answer, not be, say · To what, where: middle dove, anything, end · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, stepmother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dove | det |
| 8 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dove | amod |
| 9 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 able | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 able | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 able | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 able | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 able | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 able | cop |
| 16 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 know | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 say | mark |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 able | xcomp |
| 19 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 say | obj |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 creatures | cc |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 creatures | punct |
| 22 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 creatures | amod |
| 23 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 anything | conj |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 creatures | punct |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 end | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 end | det |
| 27 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 say | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 life | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 life | nmod:poss |
| 30 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 end | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the middle dove | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent dove=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not is | shall | stepmother | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | stepmother not said here | anything | the end of stepmother's life | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Topic to end=Recipient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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